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The cost of voter-mandated Medicaid expansion in Nebraska was predicated on state tax revenue growth. With the pandemic hitting state budgets hard, now what? #CarefulWhatYouWishFor
https://www.nptelegraph.com/opinion/todays_column/groene-this-is-no-time-for-pie-in-the-sky-proposals/article_6187f088-8fef-11ea-bfd4-6fb885d638cb.html
- Pandemic forces Ohio, Colorado, and Georgia to make deep cuts to their Medicaid programs
https://www.businessinsider.com/states-medicaid-cuts-coronavirus-devastates-economy-budgets-ohio-dewine-2020-5
- Ohio has to cut $210 million from Medicaid program because of the pandemic’s hit on tax revenues. #Unsustainable #ToldYouSo
https://www.wfmj.com/story/42093835/a-look-at-the-dollar210-million-cut-to-medicaid-and-the-potential-impact
Advocates claim necessary signatures to put Medicaid expansion initiatuve on the ballot in November in Missouri. Good luck paying for it.
https://www.lakenewsonline.com/news/20200504/medicaid-expansion-advocates-say-they-have-signatures-to-force-public-vote
- Missouri Governor: Are you crazy? Medicaid rolls are expanding because of coronavirus. ‘The state budget is tough enough to handle with the coronavirus outbreak, let alone if Medicaid is expanded.’
https://www.mymoinfo.com/governor-parson-continues-stance-against-medicaid-expansion-for-missouri/
Oklahoma legislature getting a pay raise and they still haven’t figured out how to pay for Medicaid expansion or factor the pandemic into their calculations for it. Party like it’s 1999!
https://www.newson6.com/story/5eb3438fe934da1d6e7eb649/oklahoma-legislature-gets-pay-raise-amid-budget-cuts
Democrat pandemic relief plan would give states $19 in federal funds for every dollar a state spends on Medicaid, and they want to make this permanent. “This invites enormous and wasteful spending….”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-recipe-for-waste-in-medicaid-11588629304
Deconstructing the Single Payer Narrative (tweets & analysis) –
http://www.liberato.us/single-payer.html
REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW!
– legalize true catastrophic insurance
– return Medicaid to a poverty program
END THE OBAMACARE CONGRESSIONAL EXEMPTION!